Erin Hershey Presley Back On GENERAL HOSPITAL
PORT CHARLES alumna Erin Hershey Presley reprised the role of Alison on Wednesday's GENERAL HOSPITAL as the mystery surrounding Lucy's (Lynn Herring) vampire warnings deepens. Enthuses Lynn Herring, "It was so wonderful to see her, so much fun catching up. I hadn't seen her socially since before she had her first baby! She's an absolute doll."

SURVIVOR's Malcolm Freberg Guests on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL February 13
"I was really nervous showing up at B&B — and not just because my only other acting experience was playing Ben Franklin back in fifth grade," cracks Freberg. "I thought the cast was going to hate me because they're a bunch of pros and this looks like a publicity stunt. But everyone was warm and wonderful. They made it really easy for me."

"We continue to see that multitasking is getting bigger and bigger," said Paul Wissmann, leader of KPMG's U.S. Media & Telecommunications practice. "It's getting to older generations as well, as there are more and more options in front of them."

What Made THE O.C. Great
A decade after its first season originally aired, THE O.C. seems both prescient and profoundly of its era. In some ways it's a time capsule of American culture in 2003—Paris Hilton appears as a not-exactly-ironic-but-decidedly-self-referential UCLA-attending version of herself who begs Seth: "Don't tell anyone I'm a grad student, okay?"—but in other ways, the show was groundbreaking. It was the first show to capitalize on the growing popular appetite for indie music, an early champion of nerd culture as default, the first teen soap to be explicitly self-aware.

A Brief History Of J.J. Abrams' Path To Power
The writer/director officially became King of All Hollywood as he added Star Wars to a stable that already includes Star Trek. How did the little writer of romantic comedies rise to conquer them all?